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Jensen Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$32kHealth$19kFood & Nutrition$17kRecreation & Sports$7kHousing & Shelter$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kHuman Services$4kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$178k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Point Blue Conservation Science$3,000
Focus$1,000
Feeding San Diego$1,000
Concussion Legacy Foundation$1,000
SD Youth Services$750
Friends of Coronado Library$500
San Diego Center for the Blind$500
Love One International$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Pants for a Purpose: $500 → 10%Warrior Foundation Freedom Station: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$53k · 11 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
31

Total granted

$53k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+23%

Still filing today

64%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentReligionRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WH
    WESLEY HOUSE STUDENT RESIDENCE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $7k · revenue +67%
  • UW
    USA WATER POLO INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $5k · revenue +23%
  • FS
    FEEDING SAN DIEGO
    2× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • 1I
    15 Indvidual Education Grants
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • 2E
    29 Education Grants
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • 1E
    17 Education Grants
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
2
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
3
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
4
Curebound

Curebound's mission is to accelerate cancer research and save lives. we raise and invest strategic funding for innovative adult and pediatric cancer research with one vision: cures in our lifetime.

Health
5
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…

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6
Policy & Innovation Center

The policy & innovation center's (pic) mission is to unlock the region's potential by cultivating and building partnerships. our niche is to address intractable issues that can only be solved with cross-sector, multi-jurisdictional…

Philanthropy
7
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
8
Challenged Athletes Inc

It is the mission of the challenged athletes foundation to provide opportunities and support to people with physical disabilities so they can pursue active lifestyles through physical fitness and competitive athletics.the challenged…

Human Services
9
San Diego Earth Day

We are dedicated to a clean and healthy future and raising public awareness to help accomplish this goal.

Environment
10
California Western School of Law

California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…

Education
11
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
12
San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc

The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Blue Heart Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Jacobs Cushman Food Bank: $13,000 · OtherJacobs Cushman Food Bank15 Indvidual Education Grants: $12,100 · Other15 Indvidual Education Grants29 Education Grants: $9,900 · Other29 Education Grants17 Education Grants: $8,600 · Other17 Education GrantsWESLEY HOUSE STUDENT RESIDENCE INC: $7,000 · OtherWESLEY HOUSE STUDENT RESIDENCE INCUMCOR: $5,000 · OtherUMCORCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $3,000 · OtherCRU: $3,000 · Other+31 more: $23,242 · Other+31 moreRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $16,600 · PhilanthropyRADY CHILDREN'S …+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyUSA WATER POLO INC: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsStephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY: $3,000 · AnimalsCORONADO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $1,950 · Arts & CultureCoronado Promenade Concerts: $500 · Arts & CultureFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $2,000 · Food & NutritionThe Blue Heart Foundation: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentJAMES SHIREY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$84,842Philanthropy$17,100Recreation & Sports$6,500Animals$3,000Arts & Culture$2,450Food & Nutrition$2,000Youth Development$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $16,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEY HOUSE STUDENT RESIDENCE INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUSA WATER POLO INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION AMERICA CARES: $2,100 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORONADO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $1,950 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Blue Heart Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE LIKE KAYLA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES SHIREY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANTS FOR A PURPOSE INC: $500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCoronado Promenade Concerts: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORONADO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Diego Foundat…Sempra FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jensen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jensen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jensen Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jensen Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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